Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the Midlands is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 162 181
Rank change year-on-year +67 +19 -58
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 324 162 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.62% 1.80% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.78% 2.00% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 285 109 153
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,666 8,093 10,490
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 89.68% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,592 4,557 7,019
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Midlands

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +80 169 £45,000 -10.00% 17
West Midlands +37 155 £45,000 -5.26% 30
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 318 (98.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 160 (49.38%) Azure
3 138 (42.59%) Windows
4 120 (37.04%) Microsoft
5 119 (36.73%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (34.88%) VMware
7 101 (31.17%) Active Directory
8 91 (28.09%) Windows Server
9 85 (26.23%) Firewall
10 84 (25.93%) Hyper-V
11 81 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 68 (20.99%) Social Skills
13 58 (17.90%) DNS
14 57 (17.59%) AWS
15 51 (15.74%) SAN
16 48 (14.81%) Linux
16 48 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
17 47 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
17 47 (14.51%) Microsoft Exchange
17 47 (14.51%) PowerShell
18 46 (14.20%) DHCP
19 43 (13.27%) Data Centre
20 41 (12.65%) Microsoft Intune
20 41 (12.65%) WAN
21 39 (12.04%) SharePoint
22 37 (11.42%) Cisco
23 36 (11.11%) Veeam
23 36 (11.11%) Entra ID
24 34 (10.49%) TCP/IP
24 34 (10.49%) ITIL

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (14.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (12.04%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.70%) IIS
4 6 (1.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) CATIA
2 2 (0.62%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 160 (49.38%) Azure
2 119 (36.73%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (17.59%) AWS
4 36 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.40%) Google Workspace
6 9 (2.78%) SaaS
7 8 (2.47%) Mimecast
8 7 (2.16%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.54%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (1.54%) IaaS
10 5 (1.54%) PaaS
11 4 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.23%) GCP
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Stack
12 3 (0.93%) Serverless
13 2 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.62%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (26.23%) Firewall
2 58 (17.90%) DNS
3 51 (15.74%) SAN
4 46 (14.20%) DHCP
5 41 (12.65%) WAN
6 34 (10.49%) TCP/IP
7 33 (10.19%) LAN
8 31 (9.57%) VLAN
9 27 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (3.70%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.70%) Wireless
11 11 (3.40%) SSL
12 10 (3.09%) VPN
12 10 (3.09%) WLAN
13 7 (2.16%) FTP
13 7 (2.16%) HTTP
13 7 (2.16%) NAS
13 7 (2.16%) Network Security
13 7 (2.16%) SNMP
13 7 (2.16%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.85%) MySQL
4 5 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (0.62%) GitLab
2 2 (0.62%) JIRA
2 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.41%) Finance
3 15 (4.63%) Retail
4 12 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.40%) Law
6 7 (2.16%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.54%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.54%) Automotive
7 5 (1.54%) Legal
8 4 (1.23%) Aviation
8 4 (1.23%) Avionics
8 4 (1.23%) Games
9 3 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Electronics
10 2 (0.62%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Local Government
10 2 (0.62%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.85%) .NET
1 6 (1.85%) .NET Framework
1 6 (1.85%) XML
2 2 (0.62%) CSS
2 2 (0.62%) LAMP
2 2 (0.62%) V-Ray
3 1 (0.31%) JSON
3 1 (0.31%) LDAP
3 1 (0.31%) Middleware
3 1 (0.31%) SAML
3 1 (0.31%) ServiceStack
3 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.27%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.70%) CCTV
2 12 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (2.16%) Clustering
4 7 (2.16%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.16%) EFT
4 7 (2.16%) Replication
5 5 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.23%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.23%) NHS
7 3 (0.93%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (0.93%) Mainframe
7 3 (0.93%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.62%) BYOD
8 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.62%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 138 (42.59%) Windows
2 91 (28.09%) Windows Server
3 48 (14.81%) Linux
4 22 (6.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (6.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (4.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.16%) Unix
8 5 (1.54%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.93%) Android
9 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.93%) CentOS
9 3 (0.93%) zOS
10 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.62%) SUSE
10 2 (0.62%) VMS
10 2 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (98.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
3 47 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (10.49%) ITIL
5 28 (8.64%) DevOps
6 25 (7.72%) CI/CD
6 25 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (7.72%) Disaster Recovery
7 23 (7.10%) Agile
7 23 (7.10%) Roadmaps
8 21 (6.48%) Migration
9 19 (5.86%) Infrastructure Management
10 16 (4.94%) Project Management
11 15 (4.63%) Change Management
12 14 (4.32%) Customer Service
13 13 (4.01%) Data Protection
13 13 (4.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (3.70%) Analytics
14 12 (3.70%) Mentoring
14 12 (3.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.51%) PowerShell
2 8 (2.47%) Bash
2 8 (2.47%) SQL
3 4 (1.23%) Python
4 3 (0.93%) Bicep
5 2 (0.62%) Java
6 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (5.25%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (4.01%) CCNA
3 11 (3.40%) Degree
3 11 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.85%) MCSE
7 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.23%) CCA
8 4 (1.23%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CCDA
9 3 (0.93%) CCNP
10 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.62%) MCITP
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.31%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (3.09%) QA
2 5 (1.54%) GDPR
2 5 (1.54%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.23%) NIST
4 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (31.17%) Active Directory
2 84 (25.93%) Hyper-V
3 81 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (6.79%) Docker
5 12 (3.70%) vSphere
6 10 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.54%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.62%) pfSense
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (12.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.79%) Ansible
3 20 (6.17%) Terraform
4 18 (5.56%) SCCM
5 14 (4.32%) Kubernetes
6 10 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (2.78%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.85%) WSUS
9 5 (1.54%) VxRail
10 4 (1.23%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.23%) SCOM
11 2 (0.62%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.62%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.31%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.31%) Nessus
12 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 113 (34.88%) VMware
3 37 (11.42%) Cisco
4 36 (11.11%) Veeam
5 33 (10.19%) Citrix
6 27 (8.33%) Dell
7 22 (6.79%) HP
8 13 (4.01%) Meraki
9 11 (3.40%) Globalscape
9 11 (3.40%) Google
9 11 (3.40%) Sophos
10 10 (3.09%) Acronis
11 8 (2.47%) EqualLogic
12 7 (2.16%) NetApp
12 7 (2.16%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.85%) Nasuni
13 6 (1.85%) Oracle
13 6 (1.85%) Rapid7
14 5 (1.54%) Commvault
14 5 (1.54%) IBM